Re; Coldspot fridge in post 859632 #17 Annapolis

[funktionalart]

Is anyone on the east coast going to pick this up? I would love to have the handles and door emblems if a part-out happens...
http://annapolis.craigslist.org/zip/5361324403.html

 

[moparguy]

Don't suggest parting! It's way too pretty to part. I spoke to them and am hoping to see it this week!

 

[wayupnorth]

I had one and it is a good fridge. Mine was a Coppertone 16, had a bottom slide out freezer basket and a neat butter hard to soft compartment. My ex sold it with the place when we split. Too bad, so sad You paid the Capital gains tax not me on that place. Ironically, it is back up for sale but I am happy where I am.

 

[moparguy]

I love the late fifties design, especially the handles and the atomic 'SR' badge... and have a 59 Lady Kenmore range very similar to the one in the photo, and which will mate with the fridge!

 

[funktionalart]

I'm HAPPY it is not being parted--these things all need to be saved when possible. I only wanted to know if it was being parted because I bought this '63--and wanted to cosmetically alter it to look like an earlier version:

 

[gansky1]

What year is the Annapolis Coldspot? The handles, emblem and kick plate grille are identical to my grandmother's, hers was a top-freezer but everything else is the same.

WP/KM did have some very beautiful refrigerators.

 

[moparguy]

Wow, very (pardon the pun) cool! Nice looking fridge. Is it up and running (which the one out here is not)? Hopefully the issues can be repaired... it will still make a nice display piece with my Lady Kenmore range. Will keep you posted...

 

[moparguy]

I think the fridge out here is about a 1960... but someone may know more exactly...

 

[funktionalart]

The one in MD for sale is either a '59 or '60.

 

[rp2813]

Annapolis Fridge

I think it might be as late as 1962.  My sister had a '61 that looked like the Bowie fridge on the exterior including the handles, but I think hers was the hugest one they made, and it had the adjustable "Spacemaster" shelving system.  It had a thick chrome strip across the top of the door with "C O L D S P O T" in ribbed black lettering.  It had two crisper drawers instead of the half-moon spinner, which I think either came later or was only used on smaller models.  It also had a specified slide-out tray labeled "BOTTLES."  Interior lighting was fluorescent across top rear.  The grille at the bottom was slanted inward toward the top.  Later grilles were perfectly vertical like the one in the OP and on Allen's. 

 

I'm starting to think my sister's fridge could have been a '60.  It's the only BF Coldspot from this period I've ever seen with a slanted grille.

 

From the looks of the freezer on the OP fridge as well as what appears to be a condensate trough on the rear wall of the fresh food section (that whole back wall looks awfully busy), I'm suspecting it may not be a frost-free model.  If that's the case, it's the first one I've ever seen.

 

 

 

[funktionalart]

The 1961 model (I'm looking at .pdf owner manual as I type) was visually the same outside EXCEPT for the handle being completely vertical vs. the Annapolis one curving to the left and attaching to the side of door.

 

[funktionalart]

Slanted grilles…the photo on mine doesn't convey, but it slants inward toward top as well. Everything I've found so far indicates '64 or '65/onward grilles were flat/not slanted (with vent slats or openings painted black)--and circa '66 onward grilles seemed to have been painted completely to match doors/cabinet.

 

[funktionalart]

1961 owner's manual image

…for the 15 and 16 model Coldspot bottom freezer model showing that handle difference I mentioned

 

[rp2813]

Hmmmm.  So maybe the Annapolis fridge and my sister's were 1960 models?  The handle on her fridge did curve at the top and attach around the side of the door.  Also now that I'm thinking about it, her fridge had a pedal to open the fridge door hands-free.  That thing was giant -- I'm 6' tall and it was taller.

 

It appears the fridge in the PDF has the chrome strip I mentioned across the top door along with the slanted grille.  I suppose the grille could have been replaced on the Annapolis fridge, but have my doubts.

 

My sister's fridge also had the slight bow on the exterior door front panel.  That might be a better indicator for vintage of her fridge, the Annapolis one (betting it's bowed), and yours.  I think the doors became flat surfaced fairly quickly.

 

[funktionalart]

Ralph, one of the things I noticed in the .pdf manual was their note "Your Coldspot may contain a different combination of features, depending upon the model you have chosen or because of periodic product improvement". The foot pedal seems to have been an option, for sure. My '63 Frigidaire has one, so do several of the Coldspot models in the manual I'm looking at…but nowhere does it stipulate "standard" or "optional", unlike buying a car at the time. As for the height on your sister's model…were Coldspots that much taller than other makers'? I've got the largest Frigidaire for '63 and I think it is 71" or 72"--I'm 6'2", which is just enough for me to see the top surface of the cabinet. The Coldspot I just bought seems diminutive to me at 65" height…!

 

[rp2813]

Yeah, your fridge is a smaller capacity than my sister's was.  Like I said, hers had a very imposing presence in the kitchen -- and it was pink.  I dare say it was the hugest fridge I've ever seen, and I had already topped out at 6' tall by the time she and her (long ago ex-) husband bought it from a private party in 1978 or so.   He and I loaded it on and off the truck.  It was a beast.

 

Too bad the PDF you have doesn't provide dimensions for the various models.

 

 

 

[funktionalart]

I wish I could find the link where I'd downloaded that .pdf so you could see it. I found it on a very long hunt for ways of verifying the year of my own unit and didn't think to bookmark the site!

 

[toploader55]

Moparguy...

That is one Beautiful Range.

I hope the Refridge works out for you.